Spoonflower Bootcamp: Creating a Collection

July 22, 2015

Today's Bootcamp post goes hand-in-hand with our current SpoonChallenge content. While working on your collections, as instructed by Bonnie Christine, you'll want to upload them to Spoonflower and add them to a collection in your Design Library. Here, our help team walks you through the step-by-step process of doing just that!

Why put designs in collections?

Creating collections is a simple process that allows you to keep your designs organized and grouped together based on color palette, theme or even season.

Creating a collection

Step 2: Click on the CREATE COLLECTION button on the left hand side of the screen.

Step 3: Fill out the Name and the Description of the collection, then click Create.

Step 4: When you get back to your designs page, each design will have a new drop-down menu just below its name entitled Collection. Adding a design to a collection is just a matter of selecting the collection from this menu. Wait a couple seconds, and a 'done!' message will come up next to the design. If you want to view a collection, select the name of that collection from the View menu at the top of the page.

You may create as many collections as you like, but keep in mind that a collection can contain a maximum of 30 designs, and a design can be placed into only one collection.

Ordering Swatch Sampler

With Spoonflower, you can create collections to make your designs easier to navigate. You can also order a “swatch sampler.”

A Swatch Sampler is like an old-fashioned contact sheet; it puts an 8"x8" swatch of each design in a collection onto a single piece of fabric. At as little as ~$1.20 per swatch, this is the most cost effective way to order swatches at Spoonflower.